Musk has turned his guilt into action.
tesla (TSLA) – Get a free reportCEO Elon Musk may have been one of the founders of OpenAI, but he has changed his view of the technology quite a bit in recent months as ChatGPT’s popularity has increased in the media.
“I’m a little worried about the AI stuff,” Musk said during Tesla’s Investor Day on March 1. “I don’t know what we should worry about.”
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That concern has clearly grown since then, prompting Musk to reach out to several powerful friends and post an open letter calling for the investigation into AI to be stopped. The letter has 1,123 signatures at the time of writing this article.
“We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months training on AI systems more powerful than GPT-4,” it read.
The letter was signed by Musk, as well as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mila founder and chief scientific officer Yoshua Bengio, Berkeley professor Stuart Russell, Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Yuval Noah Harari, and Forward party member Andrew Yang.
“Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and must be planned and managed with appropriate care and resources,” the letter says. “Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening, despite the fact that in recent months AI labs have been embroiled in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds than anyone, not even its creators, can understand. reliably predict or control.
